MANHASSET, NY -- IBM has awarded Min Li of Blacksburg, Va., a computer science doctoral candidate in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, an IBM Fellowship for her research on distributed stora ...
Epic, the European Photonics Industry Consortium, has appointed Carlos Lee as its next Director General, succeeding Thomas Pearsall who has led the association since its founding in 2003. Lee, who wil ...
SAN JOSE – Google is expected to boost its support in Android for cores from MIPS Technologies, giving the company a badly needed boost in the hot smartphone and tablet sector. The Android native deve ...
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp. said Monday (April 16) it would place the front-end Unified Modeling Language (UML) editor of its BridgePoint xtUML environment into the open-source doma ...
TriQuint and U.S. military team up on gallium nitride ICs
Sunovia secures financing for 10k LED fixtures a month
Research consortium claims solution for multi-core scaling
Silicon-on-insulator at ST and IBM closing gap with Intel
Not so long ago, alarmists fretted about running out of Internet Protocol domain space. Then IPv6 opened up plenty of addresses for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the much-hyped Internet ...
SunPower to take charge of more than $50M for plant closure
Indian tablet for education project in fresh controversy
Satya Gupta elected chair of India Semiconductor Assoc.
LONDON – Graphics core licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc has, as expected, produced a generalized software development kit for ray-tracing applications. It has done this by way of the launch ...
Open source platform offered for photonics IC design
LONDON – Passives to power supplies giant Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) is set to acquire NASDAQ-listed RF Monolithics Inc. (Dallas, Texas) in an all cash transaction worth about $22 mi ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Ceva has announced its next-generation audio DSP processor architecture and a family of four designs based on it. The Ceva TeakLite-4 consumes up to 25 percent less die area and 30 ...
ARM launches processor pack for big-little on TSMC 28-nm
LONDON – Processor and related intellectual property licensor MIPS Technologies Inc., a pioneer of the reduced instruction set computing (RISC) style of architecture, is looking for a buyer, according ...
Severe vibrations likely brought down N. Korean rocket
LONDON – Polyera Corp. (Skokie, Illinois), a 2005 startup that supplies organic semiconductor, dielectric, and interfacial materials for the flexible and printed electronics industry, has raised $24.5 ...
Micron, Samsung back JEDEC plan for wireless memory
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) investors should expect a long and arduous recovery for the entity that once led the mobile phone market for much of the last decade. They should also expect the near certainty ...
Abu Dhabi, Saxony invest in 'twin labs' 3-D IC project
LONDON – Processor and related intellectual property licensor MIPS Technologies Inc., a pioneer of the reduced instruction set computing (RISC) style of architecture, is looking for a buyer according ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A top Nvidia engineer is calling for a move to 450mm wafers as one part of the solution to the growing complexity, cost and time-to-market challenges in chip design. A diverse ho ...
Altera showcases productivity and cost reduction solutions for multichannel systems at 2012 NAB
Pure-play foundry market to grow 12% in 2012, says IHS
Amlogic offers dual-core Cortex-A9 for consumer SoCs
Spreadtrum, Dialog, MegaChips shine in fabless rankings
SAN JOSE – UBM TechInsights started a teardown analysis of an Intel Ivy Bridge processor. The Ivy Bridge chips are the first to use Intel’s 22 nm process technology with 3-D transistors and have yet t ...
UBM TechInsights looks inside Intel's latest Ivy Bridge processor
Registration opens for Microchip’s 16th annual worldwide MASTERs Conference
Projected capacitive touch screens/software offered
Networked sensors are finding their way into an increasingly broad set of applications marketers have dubbed The Internet of Things. The following photo gallery provides a few glimpses of this diverse ...
Apps ease test and measurement tasks on all levels
PORTLAND, Ore. -- On-chip busses and ring toplologies in use today will be more trouble than they are worth, making on-chip mesh networks the preferred architecture for massively parallel processors, ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – IBM announced PureSystem, the next major generation of its blade server design that packs servers, storage and networking into one box. The system is part of an industry-wide trend ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Carbon is predicted to replace semiconductors, conductors and even insulators in future electronic devices and its already happening one application at a time. The most recent conque ...
The distinction between manufacturing and production, and why it matters
The extraordinary auction for Japanese bankrupt DRAM supplier, Elpida Memory Inc., is well underway. The deadline for the second round of bidding reportedly occurred last Friday (April 6), with Micron ...
IHS: Foxconn report a 'moment of reckoning' for electronics
Sematech addresses 14nm process flow with new partner
LONDON – EnOcean GmbH, a building automation company that uses energy harvesting and wireless control, has appointed Matthias Poppel as chief operation officer (COO). Poppel was previously European di ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corp., and programmable logic vendor Xilinx Inc. provided an unspecified amount of funding to EDA startup Oasys Design Systems Inc., Oasys ...
Sematech addresses 14nm process flow with new partner
Altera's OpenCL for FPGAs dramatically reduces development times
LONDON – Fabless consumer chip company MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) plans to buy Coresonic AB (Linkoping, Sweden), a developer of programmable baseband processor technology targeting wireless and b ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Hewlett-Packard announced software to extend its support for network virtualization on its servers and switches. HP’s so-called Virtual Application Networks (VANs) are part of an in ...
LONDON – Foundry chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (Shanghai, China) has raised its guidance for financial performance in the first quarter of 2012. The company is now predict ...
LONDON – Sales in March by leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. on a consolidated basis took the company's first quarter sales above the equivalent figures in 2011.The conso ...